Quotes about Perception

You cannot know wisdom. You can only be wisdom.

Differences in personal style can impose formidable barriers to communication.

Purposes are threads of continuity that we weave into the long-term view of our lives. Goals come and go, but purposes survive because they are long-term, they pertain to the why we exist part of our lives. They relate to how we perceive the theory of our lives.

To protect our self-image, we kid, trick, and fool ourselves into believing the visible you is somehow real. To see ourselves as we really are, we must acknowledge our inability to do so without God's help.

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

you never just suffer the thing that you're suffering, but you always also suffer the way that you're suffering that thing.

Word problems are often interpretation problems. We do not say the right thing because we do not believe the right thing.

Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic

Yet we all tend to think that we are more righteous than we are, and when we think this, we have taken the first step to embracing the delusion that maybe we're not so bad in God's eyes after all.

If complaint has the power to focus your vision, it can also twist and bend your perception of reality and the God who rules it.

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

We were meant to see more than our physical eyes can see,